Article: Jerry Orbach; His `Law & Order' Role Fits Him Like a Glove

Tie askew, looking like a man who has spent too many hours on a bar stool, Detective Lenny Briscoe shuffles down the hall of a New York hospital. At his side are Detective Mike Logan (played by Chris Noth) and psychiatrist Diane Meade (Lindsay Crouse). She is suspected in a murder case.

"I'm a psychiatrist," she says, trying to derail the issue.

"And I'm a detective," Briscoe mutters with an expression that says, I've seen it all, and nobody is going to pull a fast one on me.

And then, abruptly stepping out of his Briscoe character, Jerry Orbach turns to director Ed Sherin. "There's something wrong here."

He is not happy with the way the scene is developing. There's nervous laughter all ...

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